Doesn’t it always seem like by the time you want something, it’s out of season for retailers? Like the swimsuit you need for vacation in February. Or the outdoor furniture and decor you want in July and August. It was in the stores back in April, wayyy before you even could enjoy the outdoors.

It was a joy to create a custom pin board for the Name Your Board giveaway winner, Robin, who named her board “Sunshine & Lemonade Screen Porch”. With such a great name, I just had to know more and help with […]

It was a little over a year ago I gave you the first peek at our deck. We have enjoyed it for a full spring/summer season now, but just recently finished up some care taking. We had started last fall to stain the railings, but with […]

The deck we had built last fall is coming along. It was great to have it waiting for us this spring and we were able to take advantage of some spring sales to finish furnishing the deck. The last time you saw the deck, it looked like this…

What a weekend! It was way too short as always, but since we spent half of it cleaning and starting to stain our new deck, I thought it would be fitting today to share the idea behind some of the unique details on our deck. These details are what makes the deck ours. It is […]

The deck lounge chairs have arrived. The amazing deal for these chairs was not a dream. My sister helped me put them together the night they arrived and we broke them in right away for an evening gab […]

Now that our deck is almost done, I am really looking forward to decorating it. I am also secretly hoping we can get some good deals on outdoor furniture, since it is already so late in the season. To […]

I am going to let you in on my thought processes…scary, I know. Well, I put a lot of thought into choosing the perfect design for our deck. Several of our neighbors have set the bar pretty high. Now we really could care less about “keeping up with the Joneses”, but for our home value […]